If you force people to buy something they don't want it is a wealth transfer from those people to the producers of the thing they don't want. Seems pretty clear. Aside from the obvious, it will drive prices up, filling the wallets of producers even more.

Well said, ahhell. Is wrong when the government forces anyone to buy any specific product or service. That's a tell-tale indicator that government has overstepped its constitutional limits.

When this happens, it's time to de-centralize and "downsize" government.

Well said, ahhell. Is wrong when the government forces anyone to buy any specific product or service. That's a tell-tale indicator that government has overstepped its constitutional limits.

The problem arises Chief when the government "regulates corporations" for the common good.

"Progressives" have established precedent in the law going all the way back to FDR and even the Boy Wonder that prove that the Constitution wanted only upper class elites to be in control of the economy, lest the peasants (or greedy capitalists) make bad decisions.

Now, lots of people agree that peasants shouldn't be allowed to handle money, lest they make bad decisions.

Unfortunately, lots of peasants just hope somebody will keep sending them checks...